Malaysia's Ambitious Plan to Boost Renewable Energy Sources

Ahmad Hadri Haris Hadri, Chief Technical Advisor of National Malaysia Building Integrated Photovoltaic (MBIPV) Project, talks about the main objectives of Malaysia's Renewable Energy Program, the concept of feed-in tariffs (FIT) and how they practically work.

He then discusses the progress of the legislation required to activate the Renewable Energy (RE) program such as the Renewable Energy Act & Act for a Feed-in Tariff Implementing Agency

He also addresses Malaysia's goal of increasing renewable energy from 1 percent to 5.5 percent of electricity supply by 2015, how this ties in with the ETP's goals in terms of contributions to the Big-Picture goal of $444 billion by 2020.

He also expands on FIT rates and degression ratios for different RE sources.

He then discusses in greater detail the aim by 2050 for Solar as the single biggest contributor to RE (87.5 percent, or 18.7GW of 21.37GW) and how this will happen, the lessons Malaysia can learn from Europe, which has been an early mover in PV usage (such as Spain for example, which has had problems, such as including annual technology caps, and project registration).

He also talks about broad climate change issues and the impasse between the Rich and the Emerging Nations where the rich want the poor to join the fight but the poor say it's the sovereign right to cut trees down - unless they receive significant financial incentive to not do so. He explains his hopes for a resolution in Cancun, Mexico.

He also fields questions from listeners, mainly on practical issues such as costs and ROIs